Little red dots: What are the mysterious objects in the Webb telescope’s photos?
Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by…
Scientists Found That Humans Unconsciously Mimic the Facial Expressions of Monkeys and Apes
A monkey looking in a mirror. Image credits: Andre Mouton/Pexels Imagine watching a video of a chimpanzee. The…
Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war | Oceans
The federal environment minister, Murray Watt, has pledged to put an extra half a million square kilometres of…
Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries – NASA
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu.…
Scientists discover pungent sulfur planet beyond our solar system
A University of Oxford-led study has identified a new type of exoplanet with sulfur-rich magma oceans located about…
China’s Largest Solar Farm Is Quietly Changing The Desert Around It
Zhijiang Xu/Getty Images While solar panels have existed…
What and when is the 2026 spring equinox?
The Earth’s axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees and that tilt in relation to the Sun changes on…
Astronomers discover a new planet type with a vast magma ocean
Astronomers have discovered an entirely new kind of planet outside our Solar System, one with a colossal ocean…
A Climate Scientist Explains What Could Happen in Terms of Surf, Snow, and Coastal Erosion
Next winter could be a busy season for Pacific big-wave spots like Maverick’s. Photo: Tony Morin Climate models…
Asteroid Bennu’s Rugged Surface Baffled NASA, We Finally Know Why
In one of the biggest surprises of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be…
Archaeologists unearth a 125,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘factory’ that could rewrite human history |
Archaeologists are used to slow, careful discoveries. Most digs reveal fragments. At a lakeside site in Germany, researchers…
“It went completely bonkers…” Astronomers witness two planets colliding around a distant star
Astronomers say they’ve likely witnessed the collision of two planets orbiting a distant star. The star in question…